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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

James Russell Lowell

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

James Russell Lowell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

James Russell Lowell

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

James Russell Lowell

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

James Russell Lowell

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

James Russell Lowell

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

James Russell Lowell

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

James Russell Lowell

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

James Russell Lowell

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

James Russell Lowell

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

James Russell Lowell

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

James Russell Lowell

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

James Russell Lowell

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

James Russell Lowell

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

James Russell Lowell

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

James Russell Lowell